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...FRANK LUNTZ, THE BABY-FACED POLLSTER who helped Newt Gingrich draft the "Contract with America" last year, looked a little frazzled as he rushed around the Capitol last Thursday night. And no wonder: all week normally loyal Republicans in both the Senate and the House had balked at key Contract with America provisions ranging from term limits for lawmakers to cuts in welfare for unwed mothers. More than 100 House Republicans declared independence from a once sacred $500-per-child tax credit, claiming the give-away was too generous to upper-income taxpayers. Stories detailing Republican "disarray" were beginning...
Some fellows use the Kennedy school as arevolving door between Boston and Washington, saidDavid V. Bonfili '96, head of the IOP's StudyGroup Committee. "Some people use it as aspringboard, like Republican pollster Frank Luntz,while others are at the end of their careers," hesaid...
...Gingrich's top advisors, Frank Luntz, encourages Republicans to agree to perform the inherently contradictory wishes of the electorate--cutting spending, cutting taxes, increasing military spending and balancing the budget. The Contract is cloaked in Orwellian language ("The Taking Back Our Streets Act," "The American Dream Restoration Act") that demonstrates the GOP's reliance on demagoguery and simplistic propaganda techniques...
...Luntz also encourages Republicans to ignore Blacks and to try to appease angry white males. One of the best means of pandering to angry or frustrated voters is by blaming others for their problems. Thus, Republicans focus on getting tough with welfare recipients, although cash payments to them only account for one percent of the Federal budget. They feel free to attack illegal and legal immigrants and blame Democrats for mothers who kill their children. Republicans are also pressing for the repeal of Affirmative Action programs and civil rights statutes to provide a scapegoat for whites who are increasingly afraid...
...American public, surprisingly keen on some form of health insurance reform, blames the Republican Party more than President Clinton or Democrats for failing to deliver in 1994, according to a new poll by Newt Gingrich's favorite pollster. But the survey -- conducted by Frank Luntz for a consortium of major hospitals, managed-care companies and pharmaceutical firms that actively opposed the Clinton plan -- says the public would still favor a GOP-backed plan, sight-unseen, over any new Clinton initiative, 44 to 32 percent. Although few people expect Republicans to deliver anything next year, the poll indicates there's still...